Friday, June 25, 2010

Thrift Store Fun & Funnies

Whenever the world has me so stressed that I want to kick a stranger in the face, a trip to a thrift or antique store relaxes me.I haven't shopped at a mall in months, and I don't miss bright lights and blaring music from hit music stations. I like the relaxed, slow pace required for thrift shopping.Go too fast and you'll miss buried treasure.

Like these beautiful Japanese houses. They were very heavy and could have been bronze. At $25 each I couldn't afford them, but they are so damn lovely.

Or these unique ketchup and mustard dispensers. How...charming...

My friend Marianne shows us a suspiciously phallic ketchup dispenser. I think even Freud would say this one is too easy.

Yes, we did get strange glances for playing with these and making sound effects like 12-year-olds.

Delicious stimulation and so many smiling treasures. I like all the planters, which included a fish and an owl (cropped in this photo). Does anyone know what in particular was always grown in these retro ceramic planters? Succulents? Cacti?

This weekend I have immense workload of cleaning, organizing, researching, and writing. But I think I'll squeeze in a yard sale or two. And perhaps a trip through some St. Augustine Thrift stores? And some beach?! Ah, can't wait...

I love our post! You are right, thrift shopping is a different pace and so enjoyable. I could spend hours just looking and most of the time I find something just right for me. Now I'm going back to "shop" in your pictures. The ketchup container freakin' cracks me up, I wouldn't dare bring something like that home, knowing my family! LOL!

Looks like a thriftshop i could get lost in!I love cute vintage figural planters. Have a small collection. What was grown in them back in the days? I remember my mom having those green plants with all the tiny leaves in them, that kind of cover the planter hole as a blanket, you know what i mean? No clue what they are called.

And those ketchup and mustard dispensers? Let me not say anything... lol